Junior Database Administrator

Overview

The Company 

Innovative, future-focused and collaborative, StoneX Group Inc. (NASDAQ: SNEX) is a global financial services firm with an entrepreneurial culture and a passion for providing world-class services to our clients. A Fortune-100 company with a nearly 100-year track record, with 3,900 employees and over 400,00 retail and institutional clients from more than 80 offices spread across five continents, we connect clients to the global markets – focusing on innovation, human connection, and providing world-class products and services to all types of investors.   

Today's global financial markets offer a world of opportunities. To trade. To invest. To manage risk. And to grow. We believe in connecting every company, every organization, every trader, and every investor to every advantage they need to succeed in today’s global markets ecosystem.  

But that belief doesn’t stop at our clients. We also believe in connecting every single one of our employees to every opportunity they need to succeed in their own careers, too. From an entrepreneurial culture to a collaborative environment working alongside highly skilled specialists, a career at StoneX also offers a world of opportunities. To invest in yourself. To achieve. And to grow.   

We Connect Clients to Markets.  

StoneX Graduate Program 

Are you looking to gain real world experience in an entrepreneurial culture? Consider joining a thriving global financial services firm and launch your career with StoneX! Our Graduate Program connects recent graduates with the opportunities that match their skill level within StoneX and provides additional new employee trainings tailored to individuals beginning their career.   

StoneX New Grad Perks: 

In addition to the real-world experience, you’ll gain at StoneX, we’re excited to offer interns several perks which include the following: 

• Compensation: All New Grads are paid at a competitive rate.   
• Hybrid Model: StoneX works on a hybrid model with the flexibility to work from home and in one of our fully equipped offices around the globe. In office days are made better with free snacks and drinks. 

• Socials: Networking and acclimation to the company, office, and city are important aspects of the graduate program.  
• Access to Senior Leaders: Senior leaders are involved in the graduate program delivering trainings, presenting on firm business, and even attending socials.  
• Training: Virtual and in-person trainings to learn about the firm and how we do business. As well as getting new grads onboarded and connected with the company globally. 

Position Purpose: A Graduate Database Administrator is a highly motivated individual that is responsible for managing and maintaining our open source database platforms, ensuring their performance, security and reliability.  Working closely with the rest of the DBA team and development team to ensure our databases are optimized for performance and scalability. 

Responsibilities

• On call cover as a part of a rotation with other members of the team 
• Take proactive measures to monitor, trend, and tune databases, such as running maintenance jobs (backups, DBCCs, apply indexes/re-indexing, etc.), to meet or exceed baseline stability and performance SLAs on large databases (1 TB ) and large volumes of databases (100 ). 
• Create, implement, and maintain DB Health Checks/Monitoring, and have an ability to automate SQL health reporting/event notification, and corrective actions. 
• Developing ‘best practice’ standards within the DBA team and working with local and remote development teams to ensure these standards are adhered to 
• When performance issues arise, determine the most effective way to increase performance including scaling up or out, server configuration changes, index/query changes, etc. 
• Identify code defects and enhancements and develop a detailed root cause analysis that can be leveraged by the product management and development teams to improve application availability and decrease the total cost of ownership. 
• Manage and maintain our open-source databases, including installation, configuration, and maintenance. 
• Develop and maintain scripts to automate database administration tasks. 
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in database administration. 
• Adhere to and proactively enhance the firm’s compliance with applicable laws, regulations and codes of conduct in all jurisdictions in which the Firm conducts business and which have an impact on its business 
• Maintain a high level of conduct, ethical standards and values 
• Work to identify risks and enhance control across the business 

• Report control weaknesses, illegal, suspicious or unusual activity 
• Maintain an appropriate level of competence through ongoing training, making requests for updates or development as required 
• Ensuring the clients are treated fairly by knowing the customer and giving suitable advice where appropriate, providing an appropriate level of service, communicating clearly and fairly and ensuring complaints are reported 

Qualifications

Desired but not mandatory skills 

Coding skills (PowerShell, C#, Python) to automate tasks and interact with APIs 

Automation and Orchestration tools (Jenkines, Ansible, GIT, TeamCity, Azure Devops)

StoneX Essential Qualifications

Ability to maintain confidentiality and appropriately handle sensitive information with tact and discretion

Sound verbal/written communication abilities

Effective interpersonal skills

Sense of urgency

Honesty, curiosity, and tenacity

Strong work ethic and emphasis on attention to detail

The confidence to fail

Early Careers Requirements

Pursuing a bachelor’s degree from an accredited university in a relevant program and graduating between December 2023 and August 2024

Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite (preferably Excel)

Must be authorized to work in the US for any employer